The oath or starvation in Norfolk.
--The Petersburg Express has intelligence from Norfolk as late as Wednesday last. Backus, a noted blockade runner, had been captured on his way to Richmond with packages for hospitals. Affairs are very gloomy at Norfolk:The order of the Beast, requiring all per fore engaging in any business whatever the oath of allegiance to the Lincoln Government coupled with another order prohibition of the fer or sale of any property on the part of any have not taken the oath, is producing great distress. Heretofore those true to the South have refused to engage in any business, preferring to sell their household goods, piece by piece, to obtain subsistence. But now this is denied them, and it is take the bated oath or suffer hunger and starvation. It is not, therefore, surprising that many heretofore prominent citizens have yielded to stern necessity and taken the oath. Among those who have recently yielded an unwilling compliance we have heard the names of Rev. Mr. Rodman, pastor of Christ's Church; Dr. Tunstall, Dr. John B, Whitehead, Tazewell Taylor, Thos, H. Eilis, and others.
